OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	105
Waters From the Third Pole	102
Revisiting groundwater law through the lenses of earth system law and rights of nature	94
Hydrological modeling of the Silala River basin. 1. Model development and long‐term groundwater recharge assessment	65
Multispecies assemblages and multiple stressors: Synthesizing the state of experimental research in freshwaters	58
Identifying anthropogenic legacy in freshwater ecosystems	56
The lead and copper rule: Limitations and lessons learned from Newark, New Jersey	54
Beaver: The North American freshwater climate action plan	51
A new flow path: eDNA connecting hydrology and biology	51
Reanimating the strangled rivers of Aotearoa New Zealand	50
The effects of drought on biodiversity in UK river ecosystems: Drying rivers in a wet country	49
The geological evolution of the Silala River basin, Central Andes	45
Interdisciplinary Approaches Improve Understanding of Cryptogenic Species: A Historical Case Study of Crayfish in Montana, USA	37
Issue Information	36
Water‐IQ matters as water conflicts mount	36
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Scientific evidence of the hydrological impacts of nature‐based solutions at the catchment scale	35
Beaver Versus Human: The Big Differences in Small Dams	35
Water insecurity in the Global North: A review of experiences in U.S. colonias communities along the Mexico border	33
Mitigating floods and attenuating surface runoff with temporary storage areas in headwaters	32
Enhancing river floodplain management with nature‐based solutions: Overcoming barriers and harnessing enablers	31
Macrophytes as passive bioindicators of trace element pollution in the aquatic environment	31
A call for an accurate presentation of glaciers as water resources	29
Advancing Multiple‐Use Water Services for Development in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries	28
Environmental injustice and Escherichia coli in urban streams: Potential for community‐led response	28

Food web perspectives and methods for riverine fish conservation	28
The waterscape continuum concept: Rethinking boundaries in ecosystems	27
Resilient riverine social–ecological systems: A new paradigm to meet global conservation targets	27
Geophysics as a hypothesis‐testing tool for critical zone hydrogeology	26
COVID‐19 and water demand: A review of literature and research evidence	26
Water scarcity in the fast‐growing megacity of Lagos, Nigeria and opportunities for managed aquifer recharge	26
A Review of Social and Organizational Barriers to Water Reuse in the United States	25
Setting a pluralist agenda for water governance: Why power and scale matter	25
MAD water: Integrating modular, adaptive, and decentralized approaches for water security in the climate change era	24
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The development of a hydrogeological conceptual model of groundwater and surface water flows in the Silala River Basin	23
Theoretical Underpinnings of Snow Interception and Canopy Snow Ablation Parameterisations	23
The Future of Water and Democracy: Assessing and Improving Water Governance in the United States	23
Mapping the landscape of water and society research: Promising combinations of compatible and complementary disciplines	22
Hydropolitics intertwined with geopolitics in the Brahmaputra River Basin	21
Potential pollution risks of historic landfills in England: Further analysis of climate change impacts	21
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Recent progress in multi‐scale modeling and simulation of flow and solute transport in porous media	20
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A review of atmospheric water vapor lidar calibration methods	19
Data availability and sector‐specific frameworks restrict drought impact quantification in the Intermountain West	19
An overview of the evolving jurisdictional scope of the U.S. Clean Water Act for hydrologists	19
Toward a contextualized research agenda: Governance challenges of the wastewater treatment policy in Mexico and the role of subnational governments	18
Wastewater surveillance could serve as a pandemic early warning system for COVID‐19 and beyond	18
Bridging the divide between inland water quantity and quality with satellite remote sensing: An interdisciplinary review	18
Beyond landscape experience: A systematic literature review on the concept of spatial quality in flood‐risk management	18
Issue Information	18
Delivering global water security: Embedding water justice as a response to increased irrigation efficiency	17
Toward a common methodological framework for the sampling, extraction, and isotopic analysis of water in the Critical Zone to study vegetation water use	17
The environmental flows implementation challenge: Insights and recommendations across water‐limited systems	17
Are sponge cities the solution to China's growing urban flooding problems?	16
Multi‐scalar interactions between mismanaged plastic waste and urban flooding in an era of climate change and rapid urbanization	16
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Erratum	15
A Call for a Unified Database to Address Exposure Disparities in the United States	15
Hydrochemical and isotopic evaluation of groundwater and river water in the transboundary Silala River watershed	15
Water Reuse for Cape Town: Investing in Resilience to Avoid Another “Day Zero”	15
Women in limnology: From a historical perspective to a present‐day evaluation	15
Issue Information	14
An interdisciplinary overview of levee setback benefits: Supporting spatial planning and implementation of riverine nature‐based solutions	14
Why do we have so many different hydrological models? A review based on the case of Switzerland	14
Land Use‐Land Cover and Hydrological Modeling: A Review	14
Review on model development techniques for dam break flood wave propagation	14
Cover Image, Volume 9, Issue 2	14
Using water walks as a research method to gather data in water‐related social research	13
Inside‐out: Chinese academic assessments of large‐scale water infrastructure	13
Flood diversions and bypasses: Benefits and challenges	13
Uncertainties as a Guide for Global Water Model Advancement	13
Progress toward resilient and sustainable water management in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta	13

Parameter estimation and uncertainty analysis in hydrological modeling	12
Exploring drought‐to‐flood interactions and dynamics: A global case review	12
Water insecurity and gender‐based violence: A global review of the evidence	12
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Natural Flood Risk Management in Tropical Southeast Asia: Prospects in the Biodiverse Archipelagic Nation of the Philippines	12
The Needs, Challenges, and Priorities for Advancing Global Flood Research	11
Streambed migration frequency drives ecology and biogeochemistry across spatial scales	11
Forecasting lake‐/sea‐effect snowstorms, advancement, and challenges	11
Sustainability impacts of sediments on the estuary, ports, and fishing communities of Cartagena Bay, Colombian Caribbean	11
Critical review of household water treatment in Southeast Asian countries	11
Issue Information	10
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Identifying and Approaching Barriers to Environmental Flow Implementation Using Social–Ecological Systems Thinking	10
Saltwater Intrusion Vulnerability of Soil and Groundwater Near Estuaries	10
Advances in quantifying microbial contamination in potable water: Potential of fluorescence‐based sensor technology	10
Ecosystem Services in Drying River Networks: A Meta‐Ecosystem Conceptual Model	10
The geomorphological and ecological functioning of the Silala River	10
A conceptual framework for gender and climate mainstreaming to mitigate water inaccessibility in ruralsub‐SaharanAfrica	10
How should water affordability be measured in the United States? A critical review	10
Gender identities, water insecurity, and risk: Re‐theorizing the connections for a gender‐inclusive toolkit for water insecurity research	10
Climate and hydrological seasonal effects on household water insecurity: A systematic review	10
Cover Image, Volume 8, Issue 6	10
Recent advancements of landslide hydrology	10
Issue Information	9
Reframing Natural in Flood Management	9
Anishinaabek responsibilities and relationships are demonstrated in N'bi (Water) Declarations	9
Proactive river corridor definition: Recommendations for a process‐based width optimization approach illustrated in the context of the coastal Pacific Northwest	9
Climate stress testing for water systems: Review and guide for applications	9
Remote Sensing for Monitoring Macroplastics in Rivers: A Review	9
Warding off freshwater salinization: Do current criteria measure up?	9
Changes to water management and declining pastoral resilience in Marsabit County, northern Kenya: The example of Gabra wells	8
A review of video‐based rainfall measurement methods	8
Beyond engagement: Enhancing equity in collaborative water governance	8
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Linking emerging contaminants to production and consumption practices	8
Disparate Groundwater Responses to Wildfire	8
Interacting effects of climate change and invasions by alien plant species on the morphodynamics of temperate rivers	8
Advances and gaps in the science and practice of impact‐based forecasting of droughts	8
Guiding Aquatic Reptile (Chelonian and Crocodylian) Conservation in the Face of Growing Light Pollution: Lessons From Experience	8
A Practitioner‐Informed Decision Tree for Selecting Harmful Cyanobacteria Bloom Control and Mitigation Techniques	8
Reimagining hydropower in the United States	8
How resilient are waterways of the Asian Himalayas? Finding adaptive measures for future sustainability	8
The role of rewilding in mitigating hydrological extremes: State of the evidence	7
Introduction to the Silala River and its hydrology	7
State‐of‐the‐art review of leak diagnostic experiments: Toward a smart water network	7
Catchment concentration–discharge relationships across temporal scales: A review	7
Understanding synergies and tradeoffs between forests, water, and climate change	7
A primer on stream temperature processes	7
The role of water in environmental migration	7
Review of water scarcity assessments: Highlights of Mexico's water situation	7
A Review of Processes and Models for the Export of Microplastics From Terrestrial to Aquatic Systems	7
Social barriers to open (water) data	7
Issue Information	7
The effects of household water insecurity on child health and well‐being	7
Hydrosocial Territories Research: An Overview	7
Social practice theory and household water demand: A review of literature and research evidence	6
Amphibitic stoneflies (Plecoptera) are integrators of ecosystem processes in alluvial aquifers of gravel‐bed river floodplains	6
Water throughout the green energy transition: Hydrosocial dimensions of coal, natural gas, and lithium	6
Transport of persistent organic pollutants: Another effect of microplastic pollution?	6
Dry landscapes and parched economies: A review of how drought impacts nonagricultural socioeconomic sectors in the US Intermountain West	6
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Issue Information	6
Artificial DNA in hydrology	5
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Making a vicious cycle virtuous: A research and policy agenda for advancing the water security of unregulated users in the Southwestern U.S.	5
Opportunities and challenges for precipitation forcing data in post‐wildfire hydrologic modeling applications	5